Dubai Lynx Festival dates announced

The organisers of Dubai Lynx are pleased to announce that the 2nd Dubai International Advertising Festival, incorporating the Dubai Lynx awards, will take place 15-17 March 2009 at the newly built multi-purpose venue The Palladium, located in Dubai Media City.

The 3-day Dubai International Advertising Festival - Dubai Lynx - the leading creative advertising event and awards for the Middle East and North Africa includes a seminar programme featuring top international speakers, a series of topical workshops, a young creative competition, exhibitions and screenings of all the entries and culminates in the Dubai Lynx awards ceremony.

‘The first Festival saw some of the best creative advertising people in the world speak. The second Dubai International Advertising Festival will be just as powerful bringing to the region insightful world leaders from which to learn and be inspired,’ said Dubai Lynx Festival Director, Steve Lane.

Delegates wishing to attend the Dubai Lynx Festival will be able to register online at www.dubailynx.com from 4 November and entries can be submitted in the categories of Print, Direct (incorporating Sales Promotion), Outdoor, TV/Cinema, Interactive, Radio, Integrated and Media from 2 December 2008.

More than 700 delegates came to the 2008 Festival and 1600 attendees joined in the awards ceremony celebrations. Over 2000 entries were judged by international industry professionals with 181 winning the coveted Dubai Lynx trophy.

Gulf News will once again be the headline sponsor for the 2009 event.

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INCA wins at Communicator Awards 2008, New York

‘Tailgating Kills’, one of a series of advertisements designed by Inca Tanvir Advertising, UAE as part of a Traffic Safety Awareness Campaign for the Dubai based Khaleej Times has been awarded the prestigious ‘Award of Dinstinction’ at the Communicator Awards 2008 by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, New York.

The ad was chosen from over 9000 entries from around the world.

The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honouring creative excellence for communications professionals.

Founded over a decade ago, the Communicator Awards is an annual competition honouring the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity work for print, video, interactive and audio.

‘We are very proud of the fact that advertising created by a local Middle East ad agency has won in an international contest. This proves that our standard of work is now on par with the world’s best,’ said Tanvir Kanji, Manager Director at Inca Tanvir Advertising.

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